The Collaborative International Dictionary
lycaenid \lycaenid\ n. any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
Syn: lycaenid butterfly.
Prosocoele \Pros"o*c[oe]le\, n. [Gr. ? forward + ? hollow.]
(Anat.)
The entire cavity of the prosencephalon.
--B. G. Wilder.
Install \In*stall"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Installed; p. pr. & vb. n. Installing.] [F. installer, LL. installare, fr. pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall.] [Written also instal.]
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To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside.
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To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president.
Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree.
--Shak.
Pentateuch \Pen"ta*teuch\, n. [L. pentateuchus, Gr. ?; ? (see Penta-) + ? a tool, implement, a book, akin to ? to prepare, make ready, and perh. to E. text. See Five, and Text.] The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
Teutonicism \Teu*ton"i*cism\, n. A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.
Insinuate \In*sin"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insinuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Insinuating.] [L. insinuatus, p. p. of insinuareto insinuate; pref. in- in + sinus the bosom. See Sinuous.]
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To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.
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To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill.
All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
--Locke.Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
--Dryden. To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?
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To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; -- used reflexively.
He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
--Clarendon.Syn: To instill; hint; suggest; intimate.
Persuaded \Per*suad"ed\, p. p. & a. Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Persuaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Persuading.] [L. persuadere, persuasum; per + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. persuader. See Per-, and Suasion.]
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To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
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To try to influence. [Obsolescent]
Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.
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To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.
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To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.
--Jer. Taylor.Syn: To convince; induce; prevail on; win over; allure; entice. See Convince.
Interorbital \In`ter*or"bit*al\, a. (Anat.) Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.
Observable \Ob*serv"a*ble\, a. [L. observabilis: cf. F. observable.]
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Capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable.
--Sir. T. Browne.The difference is sufficiently observable.
--Southey. Worthy of being observed; important enough to be noted or celebrated; as, an observable anniversary.
Noteworthy; remarkable. [PJC] -- Ob*serv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ob*serv"a*bly, adv.
Electrify \E*lec"tri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Electrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Electrifying .] [Electric + -fy.]
To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.
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To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.
If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus . . . the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news.
--Macaulay.Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table.
--G. Eliot. To equip for employment of electric power; to modify (a device) so that it uses electrical power as the main source of energy; as, to electrify a railroad.
Libellee \Li`bel*lee"\, n. (Law)
The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action.
The defendant in an action of libel.
Summons \Sum"mons\, v. t.
To summon. [R. or Colloq.]
--Swift.
Summons \Sum"mons\, n.; pl. Summonses. [OE. somouns, OF. sumunse, semonse, semonce, F. semonce, semondre to summon, OF. p. p. semons. See Summon, v.]
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The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
Special summonses by the king.
--Hallam.This summons . . . unfit either to dispute or disobey.
--Bp. Fell.He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.
--Sir J. Hayward. (Law) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.
(Mil.) A demand to surrender.
Holothurioidea \Hol`o*thu`ri*oi"de*a\, n. pl. [NL. See Holothure, and -oid.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the classes of echinoderms.
Note: They have a more or less elongated body, often flattened beneath, and a circle of tentacles, which are usually much branched, surrounding the mouth; the skin is more or less flexible, and usually contains calcareous plates of various characteristic forms, sometimes becoming large and scalelike. Most of the species have five bands (ambulacra) of sucker-bearing feet along the sides; in others these are lacking. In one group (Pneumonophora) two branching internal gills are developed; in another (Apneumona) these are wanting. Called also Holothurida, Holothuridea, and Holothuroidea.
Usage examples of "holothurida".
Stephanotis, passiflora, tuberose, alamanda, Bougainvillea, and other trailers of gorgeous colors, climb over everything, and make the night heavy with their odors.
If allowed to stand in a test tube, the odor of valeric aldehyde will first be noticed, then that of amyl valerate, and lastly that of valeric acid.
His garments had once been fine, but judging by their worn appearance and the sour odor that rose from them, Alec suspected their owner to be a denizen of the northern Ring.
You see, ambergris is the most effective odor fixative that has ever been found.
She smelled the ammoniac odor of the big beast, even as she plunged, face down, into a tumble of leaf-drift.
She smelled an ammoniac odor, and saw a huge midnight-blue form wide and tall enough to block the corridor.
Aniline when pure is a colorless liquid, possessing a rather ammoniacal odor.
Odier has known a woman who was affected with aphonia whenever exposed to the odor of musk, but who immediately recovered after taking a cold bath.
It was a rough leveling of the debris, upon which several small objects lay carelessly scattered, and at one corner of which a considerable amount of gasoline must have been spilled lately enough to leave a strong odor even at this extreme superplateau altitude.
The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of antenatal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden.
The bear passed close enough to my window that I could smell the hot rank odor of her fur, and hear her heavy chuffing breath.
She had lost the odor of chypre now and smelled only of sweet girlish flesh.
Blade noticed what he had never noted before-an odor of chypre about the man.
Her sense of smell, so heightened now that it might have been a new sense altogether, had picked up the coolth of running water off this way, dimmed by the green odor of the grass.
The dark hall, the odor of dead rodents, peculiarly the smell of cosmoline, wetted burned paper.